A specialist in gene analysis and praised for his friendliness and sense of humor, Zheng Luo, staff research associate in the UCLA Department of Neurology, died July 28 of a liver abscess. Read more...

Carbon dioxide is the catch of the day for an international team of scientists, whose new study on the oceanic storage of man-made CO2 may have a profound impact on future studies about global warming. Read more...

With the recent successes of the Broadway hit “Bombay Dreams” and the movies “The Village,” “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” a new wave of entertainers of Indian ethnicity is cooking up a melange in the West spicier than any curry, cumin, coriander or chili powder. Read more...

In a UC Berkeley Finnish language class last fall, there were little more than a handful of students ““ only half of which attended Berkeley. The other half attended the class hundreds of miles away at their own school ““ UCLA. Read more...

PORTLAND, Ore. “”mdash; In simultaneous West Coast campaign swings President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., made brief Southern California appearances last week before moving on to the battleground state of Oregon. Read more...

BERKELEY “”mdash; A judge has blocked the University of California from raising fees this fall for some law, medical and other professional school students following a lawsuit claiming the hikes are unfair. Read more...

Vacation not an option Though all of us appreciate Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s efforts to raise staff morale, the July 29 staff picnic cannot offset that UCLA clerical workers and other campus workers are grossly underpaid. Read more...